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mystery weight gain

I have stopped losing weight - I think that my low carb eating reduced my insulin resistance, and my cells are happily accepting glucose to store away and lowering my BG levels to some new numbers, but insulin is the fat producing hormone, and so the better my diabetes control gets, the lower my carbs will need to go. I don't eat any carb dense foods, so I am maintaining the loss, and hope that once the weather is better I will be exercising more. In the mean time I am reducing my carbs a little and can see a tiny movement downwards, tenths of a pound, so the mechanism isn't broken, just the metabolism as a whole is working as it should do, and not to my advantage on the weight loss side.
 
johnme said:
4.4 I'm afraid, and I have one of those super accurate Aria things which will give you a read out to your fitbit account over a period. It's not even a week - the weight change has been since Wednesday! Before that a steady controlled if shallow decline in weight.
I know what you mean about 'bathroom habits'. I don't think it's that. I don't believe I've even eaten 4k since Wednesday. Of course I'd have drunk a great deal more than that (in my case mostly tea but water too)

And I'm afraid I tried changing batteries... all that did was rather gloomily confirmed it. Thanks for reading and posting all
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I Think you should see your GP and have you heart excamined....
just to rule it out
 
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you have had chest problems for 10 days .... a cold is usually a 5 days thing and a flu about 7-9 days... if you still feel bad it could be a lung infection which can under unlucky conditions affect the heart ... so well I think 10 days suffering is enough and that it would be time to see a doctor to rule out more serious illness..
 
We're not experts on here so your rapid weight gain could be due to any number of reasons. 4kg gain in a few days is unusual and is definitely a flag for you to check with your GP.
 
I've actually been dieting like made for two months now and the main reward I get for it as a kilo on every couple of weeks, which I then take the next two weeks to take off again. its getting very dispiriting ! I think all of us has grown to used to the propaganda that weigh loss equals more calories out than in, that when our bodies go off on some metabolic rampage as appears to be happening to both of us, then is just seems totally preposterous. One can only stick with it and carry on going in the hope that eventually it will stop fighting!
 
I agree with Freema & jonbvm - a trip to the doctor would not go amiss. Hope all turns out OK for you.
 
Remember that muscle is more dense than fat, so if you are burning fat and gaining muscle then yea, you will weigh more.

Go see your GP
 
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